Some documentation (Plugin Writers Guide, FAQ, Manual) is missing

[Douglas Bagnall]

I was looking for the plugin writers guide, but it wasn't there. Reinstalling gstreamer1.0-doc produces this output:

Unpacking replacement gstreamer1.0-doc ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 5 changed doc-base files...
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/gstreamer-1.0-faq', line 9: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/gstreamer-1.0-pwg', line 14: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/gstreamer-1.0-manual', line 11: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above errors.
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up gstreamer1.0-doc (1.0.1-1) ...

I interpreted the suggested diagnostic command to be
`/usr/sbin/install-docs -v --check /usr/share/doc-base/gstreamer-1.0-pwg`, but it doesn't really help: AFAICT, these are just signs that install-docs is noticing the files are not there.

It seems that gstreamer-0.10-doc might have the same problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alex Stefan Kaye (noxdeleo)]

Just got bitten by this coming back to 12.10 from 13.04 dailies. I was somewhat confused since the packages worked fine for me before, until I realised I'd been using the gstreamer-developers ppa before which has updated (working) docs.